Help for nginx proxy pass rule

Server NGINX
1

HI,

We have a WordPress site named it as https://www.abc.com; We are using
Nginx
as the web server for this site. I wanted to create a proxy pass rule
like
this

https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js will be load from
https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js without changing URL

Here is the configuration that I configured for this requirement in the
www.abc.com Nginx site configuration file

location /static {

    proxy_pass      https://www.xys.org/static;

    proxy_set_header Host  www.xys.org;

    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

}

When I access https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js, I am getting
Nginx
404 Not Found error with the following error log in its log file

2016/04/06 06:39:14 [error] 20107#0: *907 open()
“/usr/share/nginx/html/www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js” failed (2: No
such
file or directory), client: 118.102.223.138, server: www.abc.com,
request:
“GET /static/js/widget.js HTTP/1.1”, host: www.abc.com

I have tried different Nginx proxy pass configuration but not success
yet.
It will be good to get your thought to fix this issues

Thanks

Roni

2

Are you sure the location is working?

abc.com/static/js/widget.js" failed (2: No such file or directory) - I
think its trying to access that file locally and not via the proxy

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Roni B. [email protected]
wrote:

https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js will be load from

}

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3

Yes the destination URl [https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js] is
working
perfectly alone
Why it tried locally? I used proxypass rule for it. If I wanted to do
anything to enable proxy capability in my Nginx?

Thanks for your reply
Roni

4

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 06:58:07PM +0530, Roni B. wrote:

Hi there,

Yes the destination URl [https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js] is working
perfectly alone
Why it tried locally? I used proxypass rule for it. If I wanted to do
anything to enable proxy capability in my Nginx?

Read Module ngx_http_core_module

Then do something like

grep location your.conf

to see which location{} blocks you have defined.

Which one of those locations will nginx use to handle this request?

The error log suggests that this request is handled in a location that
is not the one that you showed – perhaps one defined as something like

location ~ js$ {

Possibly changing your

location /static {

to

location ^~ /static {

will make it work the way you want. That would tell nginx to choose it
instead of any regex one, for this request.

Separate from that: for the proxy_pass directive, you could probably
drop
the “/static” part of the argument since it matches the request prefix.

But until the proxy_pass is actually used, changing it will make no
difference.

f

Francis D. [email protected]

5

Perfect fix… Able to solve my issues.Thanks Francis

The issue was, I configured these location blocks already in my config
file

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|ico|zip|xspf|swf|ttf|woff|js)$ {
for
serving static files directly.

It was over ride the location rule that I used

It started to work my location rule changed it like this as per your
recommendation

location ^~ /static {

Thanks a Lot
Roni B.